Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faintly Galsworthian throes of this London hit give him opportunity to squirm and ogle with an excess of youth every time he sits down in a chair. The most finished performance is supplied by Ann Andrews, brought surprisingly into the second act to give the younger female fanatics the benefit of her life story. Her beauty and the sure delicacy of her acting lend a brief element of perfection to a comedy hampered by fitful mediocrity...
...posture chair. Since 1922 experiments had been conducted with the result that in 1927 came the "Perfect Posture Chair," the seat being shallower (13 in. instead of the usual 18 in.) and slightly tilted back-so that the sitter is forced to use the entire seat thus getting the benefit of back rest. Also, the chair is rounded in front so that arteries are not pinched. From March to June (1927) 6,000 "posture chairs" were sold in contrast to 2,000 armless revolving chairs during the same period...
...small college" coach this book will be of real value in that it gives him the benefit of the experience of a coach who has been identified with professional college coaching since 1906 and it will probably aid in destroying many of the former ideas of quarterback-play, of training, and of psychologizing. For the average "big-team" coach the book merely gives a system that has worked at Princeton and may work somewhere else...
...game worth much in itself. And to it will be added that accompanying virtue which comes but once a year, a wholesale association with the members of Yale University. The CRIMSON takes great pleasure in welcoming the entire Yale body to Cambridge and wishes it all the enjoyment and benefit that the occasion commands...
...hardy if benighted-souls who either have no taste for pre-game convivialities in the forenoon or who suffer from some other similarly grieyous affliction, the Vagabond will at least make a list which they might attend with benefit and pleasure this morning...